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Natural Law & the Secular Mythos: What Has Been Left "Unsaid" in Current Debates in Natural Law

Natural Law & the Secular Mythos: What Has Been Left "Unsaid" in Current Debates in Natural Law

Morgan, Gregory

Hardcover

Series: T&t Clark Studies in Ressourcement Catholic Theology and Culture

PhilosophyCatholicismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 056771697X
ISBN13: 9780567716972
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: Feb 20 2025
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book argues that natural law - when construed as an epistemological and trans-cultural lingua franca, adjudged capable of legitimating the rational intelligibility and universal applicability of specific Christian moral principles within contemporary secular discourse - has failed.

Through a detailed analysis of the contributions of three prominent natural law theorists who are located within a shared philosophical-theological tradition, namely, John Finnis, Jean Porter, and John Milbank, the text illuminates the extent to which this failure is as much intramural as it is extramural.

Morgan explores how new horizons open up for natural law if the theological unsaid(s) are allowed to surface and the disremembering power of the secular mythos is overcome. The final chapter(s) of the book addresses one such horizon- that the theoretical fulcrum of the natural law lies not in its perceptual self-evidence or in its immanent secularity; but rather in its subtle provision of an immanent eschatology.

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